Apache web server and CGI

[Lad]

Peter van Kampen <news at woody.datatailors.com> wrote in message news:<slrnchhcv5.mtn.news at woody.datatailors.com>...
> In article <81a41dd.0408092306.264beed at posting.google.com>, Lad wrote:
> > [Tue Aug 10 08:51:32 2004] [error] [client 127.0.0.1] (2)No such file
> > or directory: script not found or unable to stat: c:/program
> > files/apache group/apache/cgi-bintest.py
> > 
> > The name of script is test.py and is in cgi-bin (Apache subdirectory).
> 
> In my experience cgi-bin is rarely just a subdir of apache's www-root. The
> name cgi-bin is in itself not some magical name that 'turns CGI on'. You
> have to configure it on your httpd.conf. Here's a relevant bit of mine:
> 
> #
> # ScriptAlias: This controls which directories contain server scripts.
> # ScriptAliases are essentially the same as Aliases, except that
> # documents in the realname directory are treated as applications and
> # run by the server when requested rather than as documents sent to the client.
> # The same rules about trailing "/" apply to ScriptAlias directives as to
> # Alias.
> #
> ScriptAlias /cgi-bin/ /usr/lib/cgi-bin/
> 
> #
> # "/usr/lib/cgi-bin" could be changed to whatever your ScriptAliased
> # CGI directory exists, if you have that configured.
> #
> <Directory /usr/lib/cgi-bin/>
>     AllowOverride None
>     Options ExecCGI
>     Order allow,deny
>     Allow from all
> </Directory>
> 
> Also just to be sure the first line of test.py should be sth like this on
> windows:
> 
> #! c:\path\to\python.exe
> 
> > BTW, how can I set up a different directory for cgi scripts? For
> > example I would like to have all my scripts in
> > C:\Scripts\MyScripts
> 
> This is probably clear by now...
> 
> Hth,
> 
> PterK


Thanks Peter for help. Now I can run cgi scripts in default 
c:/program files/apache group/apache/cgi-bin/
directory.
The problem was that there was not last "/"

But how can I forced the Apache to allowed to run scripts in a
different directory for example C:\Test\MyScripts\
Thanks for help
Lad